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"This is an important own-initiative report of Parliament, which aims to set out the debate not only on the current but above all on the next Multiannual Financial Framework. It raises a large number of questions that cannot be tackled in this explanation of vote.
As we have said, albeit in a very moderate manner, the report makes some relevant points, which are in line with what we have been saying for a long time: the current Community budget is less than what is needed, and every year significant amounts are unbudgeted for (about EUR 29 billion short between 2007 and 2009). However, those responsible for this situation are covering it up, namely the European Commission, Parliament and the Council as budgetary authorities. That is why Parliament cannot now refuse to accept responsibility.
Parliament also stresses that ‘additional policies should not change the balance between the main categories of the current MFF nor jeopardise the existing priorities’, although it has removed – due to our vote against – the reference to the ‘two main policies of headings 1b and 2’, respectively convergence and agriculture and fisheries. On the other hand, it has emphasised ‘new priorities’: in other words, the neoliberal objectives of the ‘Lisbon Strategy’ (including the so-called ‘public-private partnerships’), ‘climate change’ and the militarisation of the EU."@en1
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